Samuel MENKITI
182 Green Lane
Bolton, BL3 2LF. UK
Telephone: +44 7776560538
Profile
A highly driven and enthusiastic Project Planner/Cost Estimator with rich and varied experience in FEED & EPC projects in the brownfield Onshore / Offshore oil and gas, Power plants, Marine and Waterways, Construction-Consulting ,Rail & Strategic Highways, Pharmaceutical & Biotech development projects. With significant experience in Project Controls – Planning, Scheduling, Cash Flow Projection, Cost and Resource Loading, Tracking and Reporting using Primavera P6, MS Project and Asta power project tools. With a proficient knowledge of the Critical Path Method, Earned Value Management, S-Curve generation, Delay Analysis and EOT Claims, Project Recovery and Earned Value Analysis (EVA) and document control process using primavera contract manager (PCM). Monitoring project progress with cost, resource and time parameters (Planned vs. Actual), and generating graphical reports for analysis.Possessing, excellent communication skills, the ability to workin teams and independentlyin varied professional environment.
Work Experience:
Name of employer: Amey PLC/ Royal HasKoningDHV
Date: August 2014 until Present (Short term Contracts)
Position: Lead Programme Planning Engineer
- Overall responsibility for the development, monitoring and reporting of all programmes.
- Manage a portfolio of over 200 schemes and maintenance programmes. Provide support to schemes, assets and to programme managers in the areas of effective planning, scheduling, monitoring, forecasting and controlling various projects (Strategic Highways Civil Construction Projects – United Kingdom , ENI Ship Yard Marine Project -Kazakhstan,G pharm Tech II and Novozymes Bio tech Projects – Denmark) and ensuring that all necessary inputs (Materials and Resources) are available to implement the projects.
- Review tender programmes during bidding phaseand monitor project plans during FEED - design phase; Engineering, Procurement, Construction (M&E, E&I) with Primavera P6 and MS Project. Developing base plans and monitor the project phases.
- Review overall EPC programme and ensure compliance by all contractors to the issued planning documents and procedures. Lead a team of planners on project(s) assigned to and critically analyse projects and raise flags in case of slippage(s)
- Building Primavera P6 models, updating them to reflect project changes, and generating outputs that can be used in the Weekly and Monthly Progress Reports
- Review resident engineer’s weekly reports (during the Base build, Fit out, Commissioning and validation) and Follow up of issue’s impacting the projects schedule and Maintaining a data base of projects progress and reports
- Monitoring and analysing progress & efficiency of each project and reporting to senior managers. Ensuring variations and extra works are incorporated in programmes.
- Responsible for the implementation of plans with relevant parties, including Project Managers, Designers ,Commercial Teams, Sub-contractors and suppliers and ensure projects are completed within specified timescales, scope specifications, budgets, quality and process adherence. Informing Project Manager of any slippage
- Prepare projects baseline and monitor it, ensuring that activities scheduled are running to according to plan and promote continuous improvement .Continually updating relevant project documentation following internal procedures
- Actively encouraging/developing alternative construction techniques to achieve better timescales, whilst maintaining the project requirements for budget, quality and safety.
Name of employer: Doosan Power Systems
Date: January 2013 - August 2014
Position: Lead Project Planning Engineer
- Produce and monitor project plans during design, procurement, construction (M&E, E&I) and commissioning stages of assigned projects using Primavera, MS Project and Asta power project, with multiple contractors, multiple suppliers and multiple sequential projects (STATOIL - Oil Refinery - Norway; SEEF- Petroleum - Qatar; LISCO - Thermal Power Station - Libya; PETROINEOS - Grangemouth Refinery - United Kingdom, etc)
- Responsible for project planning and management – Manage projects throughout the entire project lifecycle; including project planning, initiation/proposals, project delivery, commissioning , business liaison / stakeholder management, post implementation review and project close out / handover. Prepare tenders and construction programmes
- Maintenance of the overall project schedule at all levels (from front end engineering design, to EPC - M&E, Electrical and Instrumentation, through to commissioning) to ensure optimization of resources and control of all associated project work.
- Prepare, manage and maintain the overall EPC master project schedule using critical path network format in Primavera for each project area and utilizing the project approved Work Breakdown Structure in line with company standards and the project structure.
· Monitor program continually against performance and Incorporate program variations and assist in the analysis of costing reports received by project managers. Provide Critical Path Analysis, trend forecast, look ahead program reporting to client / management.
· Supporting the smooth running and maintenance of a number of boilers on large facilities during pre / post shutdown periods and taking a proactive role in managing client interfaces, and interfaces with other contractors.
· Anticipate problem areas regarding critical paths and advise remedial action. Production of ‘what if’ scenarios and plans to suit both client and contractor requirements
Name of employer: Bose / Pelican Subsea
Date: October 2011 - December 2012
Position: Project Planning Manager
- Produce and maintain schedule for Rig construction, resource tracking, and status reporting with Primavera Project Management application.
- Work with Project Leads to review contractor schedules to ensure trueness in work sequences as compared to their execution plan; ensure that all work scope is comprehensively defined in the schedule. Work with Project Leads to ensure contract milestones and tasks are properly integrated. Develop baseline schedules and schedule related performance indicators for monitoring of performance.
- Collect/enter daily updates; perform daily analysis of schedule performance relative to job progress. Perform earned value analysis; Produce and interpret reports concerning project status. Provide facilitation, planning and resource allocation.
- Work with all relevant project and discipline personnel - Engineers / Commissioning team - pertaining to the preparation, monitoring and updating of plans and schedules.
- Gather accurate progress and expended man hours information at relevant times. Prepare all relevant reports, issue log and support other personnel as appropriate.
- Liaise with cost discipline in the control and forecasting of man hour budgets and ensuring that all scopes including change requests are included in the schedules.
Participate in scheduled risk analysis as required and assist with the auditing process
Name of employer: Tata Steel Europe BV
Date: April 2010 - October 2011
Position: Business Performance / Planning Engineer
- Develop and manage all required planning reports, procedures and processes in conjunction with the project managers. Providing meaningful project planning, reporting and analysis on operational initiatives and take part in their implementation.
- Participate in specific planning management control audits as required by senior management and clients. Work with plant operations to develop the plant shutdown, system release, and start up schedule ensuring project delivery progress against budget, time, quality and cost. Define the activity list, manage the testing schedule, agree and assign resources, manage the resources to deliver on time, cost and quality.
- Support senior management in project planning, scheduling, documenting, measuring, monitoring and analysing project performance and risks against strategic objectives.
- Liaise with Engineers and the commissioning team. Collect information and prepare regular progress reports as required internally and / or by the client, including Resource histograms, S-curves, Physical progress and Performance indicator reports.
- Creation of new balanced scorecard via the Focus database. Data Migration .Working according to the frameworks, guidelines and processes within the department and drive to improve the performance measurement processes and planning across divisions by continuously challenging the “As is” process and sharing of new ideas and best practice – various (innovative) projects
Name of employer: AT&T Global Network Services
Date: April 2007 – March 2010
Position held: Project Manager (Lifecycle)
- Worked on the Royal Dutch Shell account on tasks related to Project Management, Strategic Planning and Business cases. Defining project scope, managed project milestones, deliverables, identify potential issues and devise contingency plans. Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders.
- Facilitated improvements in major platforms with the IT Development (R&D) organization and Pro -actively looked for areas of improvements while maintaining an interface with Product Management, Contract Management, Service Delivery (provisioning and enablement) Billing Trigger and Dispute Management teams.
- IT Project management - Bridge between IT and Billing Operations - Took ownership and managed multiple Billing Systems improvement Projects and System Change Requests. Gathered business and functional requirements (documented them), planned and executed according to budget and target. Develop peer review of Business Requirements
- Provided consultancy & SME support and sign off to the Service Implementation and Project management teams in QA testing ,UAT. CI and change management projects.
- Performed data migration, participated in system parallel run and provided recommendations for general improvements on the end-to-end IT processes to billing Operations and IT departments in accordance with the business controls (SOX).
- Business Analysis: Ad hoc reporting and in depth data / metrics analysis - explaining the reasons behind the obtained figures and assessing the impact to the business unit based on key performance indicators (KPI). Through data analysis, identified and recovered approx $2.5M of unbilled revenue for the company. Implemented VPN rates and streamlined business processes in the Asia Pacific Region. Identified cost saving opportunities and implemented performance improvements strategies, using the Six Sigma methodology. Performed root cause analysis on complex issues and manage them to resolution and also performed trend (variance) analysis to identify structural billing issues or process gaps which subsequently lead to new projects.
Name of employer: Avaya Telecommunications BV
Date: October 2004 – March 2007
Position held: Supply Chain Planner
- Used analytical and quantitative methods to understand, predict, plan and enhance supply chain processes. Responsible for assembling data, analyzing performance, identifying problems, plan and develop recommendations which support SCM planning and operations. Lead a robust Sales and Operational Planning process.
- Supporting senior management in planning, measuring, monitoring and analysing performance against strategic objectives. Preparing month-end closing financial commentaries and producing monthly variance reports for budget comparisons, detailing month-on-month and year-over-year performance, and leading on investigating and explaining variances. Act as the link between the planning functions, project managers, Sales & Marketing to ensure that customer service level is maintained at minimal cost
- Providing meaningful supply chain planning reporting and analysis to identify profitability and cash flow improvements opportunities, through the monthly Flash (dashboards) of the actual in Profit and Loss, and the control reports.
Name of employer: Shell / Sagem Engineering SA
Date: August 1999 – January 2003
Position held: Project Planning Engineer
- Ensure planning and scheduling is conducted according to the planning procedure
- Manage workload of engineers and ensure adequately skilled resources are available.
- Provided support to management and ensure that all critical path activities are actualized.
- Weekly / monthly progress reporting , preparation / maintenance of master schedule
- Planning and Scheduling, progress measurement and monitoring, Cost Estimating / Man-hour control with Primavera P3. Upstream projects evaluation and execution
- Prepared plans and schedules within the areas of Electrical and Instrumentation, M & E during shutdowns and reviewed project documents.
Name of employer: Federal Government College, Yola
Date: August 1998 – July 1999
Position held: Trainer
· Researched and developed e-learning modules.
· Prepared lecture modules and Taught Geographic Information System to senior school student. Evaluated performance and graded participants.
Education
University: Master of Arts in Science and Technology Studies (2004) (Good pass.8 out of 10)
Specialisation: Strategic Management and Innovation Systems
2003 – 2004: University of Maastricht. Netherlands.
University: Master of Business Administration and Management (MBA) (2003)
Specialisation: Business Management(Grade Point Average - 3.78 out of 5)
2001 – 2003: University of Nigeria. Enugu Campus
University: Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration and Management (2001)
Specialisation: Business Administration and Management – Credit (G.P. A - 4.21 out of 5)
2000 – 2001: University of Nigeria. Enugu Campus
University: Bachelor of Science (Hons.) (1998) -Second class upper division (2.1)
Specialisation: Economics / Geography- (Grade Point Average – 3.68 out of 5)
1993 – 1998: University of Nigeria. Nsukka
Secondary Education: Senior School Certificate (1991)
1985 – 1991: University of Nigeria Secondary School Nsukka
Major subjects: Science & Economics
Other Trainings and Qualifications
Certification
HSE-First Aid at Work Qualification (2013)
Primavera P6 (2010)
Six Sigma (Green Belt) Certification(June 2009)
Certificate as a Human Resource Systems Trainer (April, 2002)
University of Maastricht, Netherlands
Certificate in Globalisation and Inequality: A Primer in Development Studies (March, 2003)
Certificate in Democratisation of Technological Culture (April, 2003)
Information Technology Associates. Yola
Diploma in Computer Programming and Data Processing (June, 1999)
Leeuwenborgh Opleidingen Sittard, Netherlands
NT2 (Netherlands as a second language) (2006)
Skills:
- Good knowledge and experience with, Project Planning, Cost control, Risk Management, ERP and Prince Methodology. Software used includes: Primavera P6, MS Project, Asta power project, Micro planner, Pertmaster,AMS Scheduler, Milestones, Excel, Word, Oracle, Visio, Documentum, and various add-ons.
- Excellent Information Technology skills: Primavera P6, MS Project, Asta Power Project Hyperion Brio, SAP BI / BW, Cognos, Oracle, Lotus Notes, MVS based, ITIL and internet based tools. Word-processing - Windows, MS Office packages, Word; Spreadsheet -Excel; MS Visio; Presentation software - Power point; and Database applications - Access; AS 400; Business Objects XI. Prince 2, PMP, Suretrak.
Hobbies: I enjoy reading and travelling.
Languages Spoken: English – Fluent; Dutch - Good.
References: Upon Request